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Natural Stone Institute Announces 2018 Tucker Design Awards Winners
Honored in the biennial competition are members of the design community who exhibit innovation and excellence in the use of natural stone / Bybee Prize
Archive: all the stone news
Market researchers at New World Wealth analyze to which countries and cities the super-rich are moving to and which they are leaving
Australia, the USA and Canada lead in growth as most popular for new arrivals
„Archistone“ trade fair from November 13 to 16, 2018 in Madrid replaces former „Piedra“
The new show will be held under the auspices of ePower&Building, an umbrella event for the whole building sector
Trade fair Marble in Izmir: number of blocks presented will rise from 986 in 2017 to nearly 1500 this year
1250 trucks will be needed to transport the blocks from quarries all over Turkey to Izmir fairground
Lamps which derive their luminescence from the surface of slate
Polish designer-studio Gie El produces „intimate lighting“
A 67-million-pixel floating Matterhorn at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany
The exhibition „The Call of the Mountains“ shows the scope of Earth observation
6th Design Competition of the Turkish Natural Stone Trade Organization IMIB
Ideas entered for the competition are no-longer restricted to avant-garde concepts but show more and more marketable products
News about Lichens that survive on stone surfaces and start the process of soil formation from rocks
Scientists published a catalog of the more than 3000 lichens in Europe’s Alps/ New understanding of their „sharing economy of genes“
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The Getty Trust will be conducting research on the erosion of sandstone in an ongoing project until at least 2020
2018 Xiamen Stone Fair took place as every year from March 06 until 09
As the demand for natural stone now comes mainly from the private customer, Chinese booths and products showed more design than before
Stereotomy 2.0 and Digital Construction Tools
Workshop, Symposium and Exhibition by Giuseppe Fallacara and Christian Pongratz at the NY Institute of Technology 16-19 April 2018
Bubbles in sediments (stromatolites) from India give testimony how oxygen came into Earth’s atmosphere
Billions of years ago, cyanobacteria started photosynthesis which paved the way for life as we know it today
Just in time for its 50th anniversary, Draenert has a new addition to the Art Edition
World renowned architect Hadi Teherani has launched an exclusive design and created the „Marble Wing“ chaise longue
Bold Design: Household items in jade and wood sleek and simple
Sino-Thai Design Studio now located in Milan remains true to its cultural roots
Stone Industry Fair in Moscow (April 03 – 06, 2018) will have a focus on new materials from Russia and from neigbouring countries
Shown will be travertines from Armenia, marbles from Caucasus and Ural, granites from Finish and Russian Karelia or from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine, among others